Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory

[Mattias Andrée]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 11:53:27 -0600
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 04/06/2016 11:14 AM, Mattias Andrée wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:09:32 +0200
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   
> >> From: Mattias Andrée <address@hidden>  
> > 
> > If anyone knows why git send-email inserted
> > this line it would be helpful. That line
> > shouldn't be there.  
> 
> Git does that if your outgoing mail "From:" is different
> from the git authorship "From:".  In your case, the
> difference is that your git settings did not specify a
> "Full Name <address@hidden>" mail line, but merely an
> email address "<address@hidden>"; whereas your
> authorship included full name.  You may want to check
> that your top-level ~/.gitconfig has these settings:
> 
> [user]
>     name = "Full Name"
>     email = address@hidden
> [sendemail]
>     from = Full Name <address@hidden>
> 
> so that 'git send-email' won't be forced to assume
> authorship is different than mail sender.
> 

That fixed the problem. Thanks.

Feels a bit pedantic that you have too specify
the from value completely. One would think that
it could figure it out.

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